Degrees
Ph. D. Comparative Literature. The University of Chicago, 1982.
M. A. Spanish Literature. Marquette University, 1975.
B. A. Spanish and Comparative Literature.Northwestern University, 1973.

Fellowships and Grants
"Visiting Fellow, Institute for Romance Studies, University of London, 2000-2001.
Presidential Mini-Grant for Innovative Teaching, 1999-2000.
New York State/United University Professions PDQWL Award, December 1998, May 2000.
Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Eduacation and Culture and U..S. Universities
Research Grant, Summer 1997.
Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Leave Program Grant, Spring 1994. NEH Travel to Collections Grant, Summer 1992.
Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and U..S. Universities Research Grant, Summer, 1992.
Cornell University Humanities Research Grant, Summer 1984, 1986, 1987.
U. S.--Spain Joint Treaty Program(Senior Fulbright) Research Grant, 1984-85.
DAAD Short Term Research Grant, April-July 1981.
Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1980-81.
Fulbright Hays--Spanish Government Fellowship, 1978-79. University of Chicago Unendowed Fellowship, 1976-77.

Teaching Experience
State University of New York at Stony Brook: Associate Professor, 1995-present; Assistant Professor, 1990-1995; Affiliated Faculty Member, Women's Studies Program, 1995-present; Affiliated Faculty Member, Latin American and Carribean Studies, 1993-present.
Director, Latin American and Carribean Studies Center,1997-2000;
University of California-San Diego: Visiting Associate Professor, Spring 1999.
College of the Holy Cross: Assistant Professor, 1989-1990.
New York University: Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring 1989. Cornell University: Assistant Professor, 1981-1988.

Courses Taught

Literature, Culture and Film: Introduction to Hispanic Literature.
Modern Spanish Literature.
Modern Spanish American Literature.
Contemporary Spanish Novel.
Spanish Film.
Novel into Film.
Introduction to Hispanic Cinema.
Aspects of Spanish Culture through Film.
Cinema in Latin America.
Spanish Cinema since 1975
Modern Spain (general education course in English).
Culture and Civilization of Spain.
Art and Politics in Latin America.
New Spanish Historical Novel and Film.
Mexican Cinema Spanish Film Comedy.
Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Histories, Societies, and Cultures (Latin American & Caribbean Studies minor core course).
Progress and its Discontents--20th Century (Freshman Honors College).
[Cinema] Art and Society: Buñuel, Ripstein, and Almodóvar (Honors College).
The Reader in the Novel (Comparative Literature).
The Spanish Civil War in Literature and the Visual Arts (Comparative Literature).
Contemporary European Society (co-teacher for components on Spanish Culture and Society and European Culture and Media).
Spanish Poetry and Poetics (Graduate/Undergraduate Seminar).
The Language of Memory in Modern Hispanic Narrative (Graduate Seminar).
Documentary/Fiction. (Graduate Seminar in Comparative Literature).
Hispanic Narrative: Novel into Film. (Graduate Seminar).
Hispanic Cinemas: National Cinema and the Construction of Identity. (Graduate Seminar).
Contemporary Spanish Novel: La novela del posfranquismo (Graduate Seminar).
Spanish and Latin American Culture Through Film. (Graduate Course in Continuing Education).
Spanish Cinema under Franco. (Graduate Seminar).
Women's Cinema in Spain and Latin America (Graduate Seminar).
The Gypsy in the Western Imaginary (Co-taught Graduate Seminar).
Celebrity and Cultural Memory in the Spanish Speaking World (Graduate Seminar)
Language: English Composition. Elementary Spanish Language. Intermediate Spanish Language.
Spanish Conversation and Composition.
Advanced Spanish Composition and Conversation

Publications

Books
Out of the Shadows: Women's Cinema in Spain, 1935-1996. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, forthcoming

Post-Franco, Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar. Westport, CT:Greenwood Press, 1995. As editor (with Barbara Morris) and contributor.

The Spanish Civil War and the Visual Arts. Ithaca: Cornell University Center for International Studies, 1990. As editor and contributor.

Juan Benet. "El escritor y la crítica." Madrid: Taurus, 1986. As editor and contributor.

Articles

"Theatricality, Melodrama and Stardom in El último cuplé," Gender and Spanish Cinema. Eds. Parvati Nair and Steven Marsh. Oxford: Berg, forthcoming.
"Inconography of the Nationalist Cause," Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War. Ed. Noel Valis. New York: MLA, forthcoming.
Articles on "Spain," "Sara Montiel," and "Victoria Abril" in Journeys of Desire: European Act ors in Hollywood. Eds. Alastair Phillps and Ginette Vincendeau. London: British Film Institute, forthcoming.
"Remaking Spain: Trans/national Mythologies and Cultural Fetishism in The Devil is a Woman (Sternberg, 1935) and That Obscure Object of Desire (Buñuel, 1977). Journal of Romance Studies 4:1 (Spring 2004): 13- 27.
Articles on Spanish cinema and culture for Spanish Culture and Society: The Essential Glossary, Ed. Barry Jordan, London: Arnold Publishers, 2002. [Directors: Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis Berlanga, Jaime Camino, Jaime Chávarri, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Josefina Molina, Basilio Martín Patino, Carlos Saura; Actors: Carmen Maura, Fernando Rey; Cinema terms and concepts: Arte y ensayo, Dubbing, Escuela Oficial de Cine, Nuevo Cine Español, Salamanca 1955; Cultural life: Francoist culture; Writers and intellectuals: Juan Benet].
"Screening Room: Spanish Women Filmmakers View the Transition," Women's Narrative and Film in Twentieth-Century Spain: A World of Differences, Eds. Kathleen Glenn and Ofelia Ferrán. New York: Routledge, 2002, 95-113.
"Spanish Cinema in the 90s: National Cinema in Global Perspective," Post Script , Vol. 20, No. 2 (Winter 2002), 81-91.
"Culture and Film in Modern Spain to 1975," Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture. Ed. David T. Gies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 248-266.
"Scripting a Social Imaginary: Hollywood in/and Spanish Cinema." Modes of Representation in Spanish Cinema. Eds. Jenaro Talens and Santos Zunzunegui. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998, 319-329.
"The Trauma of History/ The History of Trauma: Plotting Memory in Jorge Semprún." Cine-Lit III. Eds. George Cabello-Castellet, Jaume Martí-Olivella, and Guy Wood. Portland: Portland State University et al, 1998, 157-167.
"La retórica de la oralidad en la poesía de las Américas," Con tanto tiempo encima. Homenaje a Pedro Lastra. Ed. Elizabeth Monasterios. La Paz: Plural Editores, 1997, 375-391.
"Reading Hollywood in/and Spanish Cinema: From Trade Wars to Transculturation," Refiguring Spain: Cinema/Media/ Representation. Ed. Marsha Kinder. Duke University Press, 1997, 35-65.
"Crossing City Limits: Fiction, Documentary, History in Basilio Martín Patino's Madrid," Cine-Lit II . Eds. George Cabello-Castellet, Jaume Martí-Olivella, and Guy Wood. Portland: Portland State University et al, 1995, 175-185.
"Cine de mujeres, contra-cine: La obra fílmica de Josefina Molina," Discurso feminino actual. Ed. Adelaida Martínez. University of Puerto Rico Press, 1995, 225-252. "Introduction: Pedro Almodóvar, Postmodern Auteur," Post-Franco, Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar, 1-23. (With Barbara Morris).
"Mise en abyme and the Making of Meaning in Luis Goytisolo's Antagonía." A Ricardo Gullón: Sus discípulos. Ed. Adelaida López de Martínez. Erie, PA: ALDEEU, 1995, 229-241
"Melodrama Against Itself: Pedro Almodóvar's ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?," Film Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Spring 1993), 28-40. Reprinted in Post-Franco, Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar, 59-72. To be reprinted in Gale Research Contemporary Literary Criticism.
"El perspectivismo orteguiano y el concepto de literaridad," Ortega y Gasset: Un humanista para nuestro tiempo. Ed. Ciriaco Morón-Arroyo. Erie, PA: ALDEEU, 1992, 109-121.
"The Third Wave," Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Vol. 13.4 (1991), 123-127.
"The Spanish Civil War and the Visual Arts: An Annotated Bibliography," in The Spanish Civil War and the Visual Arts (1990), 126-131.
"Gritos de la Pared /Shouts from the Wall," in The Spanish Civil War and the Visual Arts (1990), 132-147.
"Chismografía en las novelas de Galdós: La incógnita y Realidad," La Torre, Vol. 3, No. 10 (April-June 1989), 205-219.
"The Language of Memory: The Spanish Civil War in the Films of Carlos Saura," Rewriting the Good Fight: Critical Essays on the Literature of the Spanish Civil War. Eds. Frieda s. Brown, et al. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1989, 125-142.
"El lenguaje de la memoria en la narrativa española contemporánea," Actas del XI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, 1989, 429-437.
"La Politique des Auteurs: Narrative Point of View in Pascual Duarte, Novel and Film," Hispania, Vol. 72 (March 1989), 87-96.
"The Masks of Eros: Luis Goytisolo's Antagonía, " Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Vol. 16, No. 1 (January 1987), 85-99.
"Re-Viewing the Spanish Civil War: Franco's Film Raza," Film and History, Vol. 16, No. 2 (May 1986), 26-34.
"Cortázar's 3 R's: Reading, Rhetoric and Revolution in Libro de Manuel," Modern Language Studies, 16:3 (Summer 1986), 264-270. "Claves para la poesía de César Vallejo, Peña Labra, No. 38 (Winter 1980-81), 56-60.
"Amor, fantasía, vacío en un cuento de Juan Benet," Insula, No. 410 (January 1981), 1, 10. Reprinted in Juan Benet, 220-226.

Translations:
Jean Paul Dollé.
"The One Who Was Nearsighted," Chicago Review, Vol, 32, No.3 (Winter 1981), 41- 47. Special Issue devoted to the Nouveaux Philosophes.

Book Reviews:
Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz. Buñuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, forthcoming.
Jorge Marí. Lecturas espectaculares. El cine en la novela española. Madrid: Ediciones Liberatarias, 2003. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, forthcoming.
Susan Martin-Márquez. Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema: Sight Unseen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Scope: An On-Line Journal of Film Studies, Fall 2001. John Margenot III, ed. Juan Benet: A Critical Reappraisal of his Fiction. West Cornwall, CT: Locus Hill Press, 1997.
Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Winter 1999), 354- 357.
Paul Julian Smith. Vision Machines: Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1983-1993. London: Verso, 1996. Film Quarterly, Vol 51, No. 3, 64-65.
Seymour Menton. Latin America's New Historical Novel. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993. New Novel Review, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring 1996), 109-110.
Antonio Monegal. Luis Buñuel de la literatura al cine. Barcelona: Anthropos, 1993. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, forthcoming.
John B. Margenot, III. Zonas y sombras: Aproximaciones a Región de Juan Benet. Madrid: Pliegos, 1991. Letras Peninsulares, Vol. 6, Nos. 2-3 (Fall -Winter 1993-4): 429-430.
Yves Lissorgues, Coordonnateur. La renovation du roman espagnol despuis 1975. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 1991. Revista Hispánica Moderna, Vol. 47 (June 1994): 252-256.
Ronald Schwartz. Spanish Film Directors (1950-1985): 21 Profiles. Metuchen:Scarecrow Press, 1986; and Peter Besas. Behind the Spanish Lens. Denver: Arden Press, 1985. Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Winter 1987), 68-71.
Robert Spires. Beyond the Metafictional Mode. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1984. MLN, Vol, 101, No. 2 (March 1986), 447-451.
Juan Benet. Una tumba y otros relatos. Ed. Ricardo Gullón. Madrid: Taurus, 1982. Hispanic Review, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Autumn 1983), 478-480.

Work in Progress

The Rythyms of History: Cinema, Music and Popular Memory in Post-War Spain. The texts studied comprise a diverse corpus of cinematic and musical genres produced and consumed in Spain between the 1930s and the present. Employing a "cultural materialist" approach, I analyze these works within their social, political, and historical contexts: from the Republic through the Civil War, Francoist dictatorship and Transition to decentralized democracy and integration within the EU; from economic and cultural autarky to consumer society; and from the beginnings of sound cinema and the spread of radio and recordings to an increasingly globalized cultural marketplace. The eight chapters seek to map out the shifting currents in the practice and social meanings of memory as expressed through diverse forms of historical and musical cinema. A focus on reception and consumption of film and popular culture, in addition to production, allows for consideration of the place of non-Spanish, namely Hollywood and Latin American products and performers, within the domestic cultural field and an analysis of their ongoing role in shaping the national imaginary. I am currently sending out a prospectus and sample chapters to British and US university presses.

An Oral History of Cinema-Going in 1940s and 1950s Spain. A collective research project funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Board. Professor Jo Labanyi of Birkbeck College, University of London, is the Project Director of the international research team composed of Prof. Vicente Sánchez-Biosca, University of Valencia, Spain, Prof. Susan Martin-Márquez, Rutgers University, Professor Eva Woods, Vassar College, and myself.

Invited Lectures and Conference Papers, 1990-2004
"Un día de suerte," Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington, NY, July 2004. "Un oso rojo," Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington, NY, May 2004.
"The Use of Film in the Classroom," The Teaching for Learning Center of SUNY College at Old Westbury, May 2004.
"Momentos," Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington, NY, March 2004.
"Las canciones de Almodóvar," Congrreson International Pedro Almodóvar, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain, November 2003.
"Los lunes al sol by Fernando de León," Great Neck Art Center Cinemateque, April 2003.
"'Made in Spanish': Hispanic Cinema in the Global Market," MLA Convention, New York City, December 2002.
"War and Historical Memory: The Spanish Civil War in Recent Cinema," King Juan Carlos I Center, NYU, November 2002. "1992-1998: Cuba Lost and Found in Recent Spanish Cinema,
" Hispanic Cultural Studies: The State of the Art, Tucson Arizona, September 2002.
"The Carmen Myth Revisited in The Devil is a Woman (Sternberg, 1935) and Cet obscur objet du désir (Buñuel, 1977), MLA Convention, New Orleans, December 2001.
"'Déjame recordar': The Songs of Almodóvar," University of Washington, Seattle, February 2001; Cambridge University, March 2001; University of Rochester, March 2002.
"Julio Medem, Lovers of the Arctic Circle, and the Place of the Auteur in a Global Cinema, " Oxford University, November 2000.
"Screening Room: Spanish Women Filmmakers Looks at the Transition," Society for Spanish and Portuguese Hitorical Studies, New York University, April 2000.
"The Spanish Civil War on Film," Drury University, Springfield, MO, March 2000.
"Cecilia Bartolomé's Lejos de Africa," Africa in Spanish Cinema/ Spain in African Cinema, King Juan Carlos I Center, New York University, March 2000.
"Matilde Landeta's Trotacalles: An Introduction," ¡Cine Mexicano! Mexico's Women Filmmakers, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., March 2000.
" Feminst Film Theory," Chicks & Flicks: Image, Expression and Theory in Movies By and About Women, Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY, March 2000.
"Memories of Underdevelopment" Cecelia's Bartolomé's Lejos de Africa," Cine-Lit 2000, Portland, OR, February 2000; Charlas Literarias, SUNY at Stony Brook, April 2000.
"Music, Memory, and Popular History," Division of Twentieth Century Spanish Literature, MLA Convention, San Francisco, December 1998.
"Latin American Cinema in Context, " Introductory Lecture, St. Joseph's College, Latin American Film Series, April 1998.
"Tracking the Historical Imagination: From Buero Vallejo's Un soñador para un pueblo (1958) to Josefina Molina's Esquilache (1988), Division of 20th Century Spanish Literature, MLA Convention, Toronto, December, 1997.
"Hispanics in Cinema," Career Women's Network Luncheon, SUNY at Stony Brook, October 1997.
"The Two Marías: Framing Race, Gender and Revolution in Spanish and Mexican Cinema," Faculty Colloquium Series, Humantities Institute, SUNY at Stony Brook, April 1997.
"The Trauma of History/The History of Trauma: Plotting Memory in Jorge Semprún," Cine-Lit III. An International Conference on Hispanic Literatures and Cinematographies, Portland, Oregon, February 1997. "The Spanish Civil War Revisited: Franco on Film," Twenty-first Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film, West Virginia University, October 1996.
"Betrayed by Rita Hayworth: Gilda and the Re-Engendering of Spanish History in Recent Spanish Cinema," Harvard University Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, March, 1996.
"Gilda in Three Spanish Films from the 80s and 90s," VI Conferencia Internacional de la Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica,
"La Representación Femenina: Imagen y Escritura," Barnard College, October 1995.
"Symphony of a City: Patino's Madrid," Modern Language Association Convention, San Diego, December 1994.
"Pedro Almodóvar, Postmodern Auteur," South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention , Baltimore, November 1994.
" Música, memoria e historia popular," Seminario Cine y Cultura,sponsored by the Instituto Cervantes and New York University, New York, November 1994.
"Reading Hollywood in/and Spanish Cinema: From Trade Wars to Transculturation," Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, April 1994.
"Crossing City Limits: Fiction, Documentary, History in Basilio Martín Patino's Madrid," Cine-Lit II. An International Conference on Hispanic Literatures and Cinematographies, Portland, Oregon February 1994. "Latin American Women Directing Today: A Response," Latino and Hispanic Women Writers as Critics, Creators and Translators: Who is Publishing and for Whom?, CUNY Graduate Center, May 1993. "Constructing a Social Imaginary: Hollywood in/and Spanish Cinema," Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, November 1991.
"Women's Cinema as Counter Cinema: The Films of Josefina Molina," Cine-Lit. An International Conference on Spain's Literatures and Cinematographies, Portland, Oregon, March 1991.
"Modes of Representation in Spanish Cinema after Franco: A Response," Midwest Modern Languages Association Convention, Kansas City, November 1990.
"Visual Pleasure and the Melodramtic Imagination in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar," A Conference on Spanish Film Since Franco, Clark University, April 1990.

Television Lectures
On Carlos García Agraz's Mi querido Tom Mix, "City Cinemateque," CUNY-TV (taped May 2004).
On Luis Buñuel's Ensayo de un crimen, "Other Americas: An Introduction to Latina American Cinema," CUNY-TV (taped May 2000).
On Marco Ferreri's El cochecito, "50 Years of Films from Spain and Spanish America," CUNY-TV and the Instituto Cervantes (taped June 1995).
On Basilio Martín Patino's Los pasos perdidos, "City Cinemateque," CUNY-TV (taped September 1994). "Introduction to Film Studies: Analysis of Howard Hawk's His Girl Friday," CUNY-TV Telecourse, (taped June 1993).
On Carlos Saura's La caza, "Cinema Then, Cinema Now," CUNY-TV (taped May 1992).
On Julio Cortázar/Michaelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up, "Cinema Then, Cinema Now," CUNY-TV. (taped May 1991).

Conference Sessions Organized and Chaired, 1990-2001
"Spanish Resistance: The Legacies of Terenci Moix and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán," MLA Convention, Philadelphia, December 2004. "Remaking Spain: Gender, Race, and Nation in Spanish, French, and Hollywood Film Remakes," MLA Convention, New Orleans, December 2001.
"The Oral History of Cinema-Going in 1940s and 1950s Spain Research Project: A Round Table Discussion," Cine Lit 2000, Portland, February 2000.
"The Genealogy of Memory: History Repressed and Recovered in Spanish and Argentine Narrative," Cine- Lit III, Portland, February 1997. "A Tale Tale of Two Cities: The City Past and Present in Spanish and Latin American Cinema," Cine-Lit II, Portland, February 1994.
"Post-Franco Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar," Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, December 1991.

Conferences and Film Series Organized
Hispanic Cinemas: The Local and the Global, (Co-organizer), Institute for Romance Studies, University of London November 2003.
Europe and the Gypsies, An International Colloquium, (Co-organized with Lou Charnon-Deutsch), Humanities Institute and Department of Hispanic Langauges and Literature, SUNY Stony Brook, Fall 2003.
New Mexican Cinema, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center and Hispanic Languages and Literature, SUNY at Stony Brook, February-May 2002.
Recent Latin American Cinema, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, SUNY at Stony Brook and SUNY-Old Westbury, February-April 2000.
Changing Images of the American Hispanic in Film, Cornell University, March 10-12, 1988.
A conference and eightweek film series.
The Spanish Civil War and the Visual Arts, Cornell University , October- December, 1986.
Events included a three-day, interdisciplinary conference, a thirteen-week film series, an exhibition of Spanish Civil War posters at Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, and an exhibition of photographs, pamphlets and other materials at Cornell's Olin and Uris Libraries. Recent Spanish Film, a month-long film series co-sponsored with Cornell Cinema, Spring 1984.

Editorial and Referee Activities
Editor, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 2002- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 1998-2003
Manuscript reader: University of Wisconsin Press (Winter 1982); Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (Fall 1987, Fall 1988); University of Minnesota Press (Fall 1991); Princeton University Press (Fall 1991); D. C. Heath and Company (Fall 1995); Arizona Journal of Hispanic Culural Studies (Summer 1997, Spring 1998, Spring 2000, Spring 2002, Spring 2003), Cinema Journal (Fall 1998); State University of New York Press (Summer 2001); Polity Press (Summer 2002); Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, (Fall 2002, Fall 2003); Edinburgh University Press (Winter 2004).
Editorial Board, Diacritics (1981-1989).
Tenure referee: SUNY at Buffalo, Fall 2000; Barnard College, Summer 2001; City College-CUNY, Winter 2002; Washington University, Spring 2002; Tulane University, Fall 2003.
Grant Review: Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Winter 2002.

Membership in Professional Organizations
Modern Language Association. Elected to the MLA Division for 20th Century Spanish Studies, 2003- International Association of Hispanists.
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
Society for Cinema Studies.
Feministas Unidas.
Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica Latin American Studies Association

Graduate Theses Directed
Ph. D.
"Ideology and Narrative Reflexivity in Tiempo de Silencio, Revindicación delConde Don Julián, and El cuarto de atrás." Carl Mentley, Cornell University, August 1992. (Associate professor, Erskine College).
"Del hecho literario al hecho fílmico: La representación del punto de vista en Los santos inocentes, Tiempo de silencio y El sur. Susana Rubio Gribble, SUNY at Stony Brook, August 1992. (Assistant professor, University of Richmond).
"El metal de la voz: La génesis alquímica de América en Pablo Neruda." Angeles J. Placer, Cornell University, May 1993. (Assistant professor, Drury College).
"Narrativas de representación urbana: Un estudio de expresiones culturales de la modernidad latinoamericana." Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, SUNY at Stony Brook, December 1995. (Assistant professor, Georgia State University).
"Voices of the Survivors: Testimony, Mourning and Memory in Post-Dictatorship Argentina." Liria Evangelista, SUNY at Stony Brook, April 1996. (Assistant professor, Dickenson College).
"Castañuelas para Franco: Nacionalismo y misticismo en la canción flamenquista de la postguerra española." Soledad de Mateo, SUNY at Stony Brook, June 1996. (Assistant professor, University of Miami). "Configuraciones políticas del bolero en la narrativa caribeña." Jorge Rosario, SUNY at Stony Brook, May 2000. [Assistant Professor, C.W. Post Long Island University]
"From Rags to Riches: Ideological Contradiction and Female Stardom in the Andalusian Musical Comedy Film," Eva Woods, SUNY at Stony Brook, August 2000. [Visiting Assistant Professor, Vassar College] "Boom de la novela erótica en España: La sonrisa vertical," María Elena Bisabarros, SUNY at Stony Brook, October 2002.
"Transgressional Hypotextualities in Contemporary Peninsular Literature," (Co-director), Eduardo Barros Grela, SUNY at Stony Brook, August 2003. [Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge) "Postmodern Madrid: Changing Identities in the Post-Franco Era," Esther Lomas Sampedro, SUNY at Stony Brook, in progress.
"Shaping the Madre Patria: Female Icons and National Identity in 1940s Spain and Argentina, Catherine Lange, SUNY at Stony Brook, in progress.

M.A.
"De la literatura al cine. Tres películas latinoamericanas." María Helena Rueda, SUNY at Stony Brook, December 1991.
"Memoria para el futuro: Cine e historia en América Latina." Cecilia Araneda, SUNY at Stony Brook, May 1994.
"La literatura infantil de Rafael Pombo." Rafaela Mendes, SUNY at Stony Brook, December 1994. "Alienación y mutilación existencial en Harlem todos los días de Emilio Díaz Valcárcel." Frances Rivera, SUNY at Stony Brook, August 1996.
"El espacio femenino y la transgresion en las sociedades patriarcales," Teresa Schueren, SUNY at Stony Brook, May 2001.
"El cine histórico de María Luisa Bemberg: Una mirada feminista," Sonia Sánchez, SUNY at Stony Brook, August 2002. " La obra teatral y cinematográfica de Manuel Puig," María Eugenia Little, SUNY at Stony Brook, in progress.

Administrative Service--SUNY at Stony Brook University:
Selection Committee, Rockefeller Foundation Residential Fellowship, Latin American and Carribean Studies Center, Spring 2003, Spring 2004.
Chair, Selection Committee, Partnership Scholarship for Latino Scholars and Research, Fall 2001.
Co-Chair, Hispanic Heritage Month Coordinating Committee, 1999-2000.
Council on Faculty Rights and Responsibilies, July 1999-
Faculty Representative to External Review of the Career Placement Center, July 1999.
Provostial Committee on Student Advising, Jan. 1999-2000.
Hispanic Heritage Month Coordinating Committee, 1997-2000.
Dean's Committee on Curricular Initiatives: New American Studies, September 1997-
Honors College Faculty Advisory Committe, July 1997-2000.
Selection Committee, Partnership Fund for Latino Scholars and Research Graduate Travel/Research Award and Undergraduate Award for Academic Acheivement, Fall 1996.
Chair, Search Committee for Employer Relations Manager, University Career Placement Center, May- November 1996.
Dean's Committee on Curricular Initiatives: Film, Narrative and Culture, October 1996-
Faculty, Student and Staff Retreat, November 1996.
Humanties and Fine Arts Steering Committee on the Teaching of Languages and Literatures, Fall 1995. General Faculty Adviser, Freshman and Transfer Student Orientation, Summer 1993, January 1994, Summer 1994, January 1995, Summer 1995.
Departmental Adviser, Transfer Orientation, Summer 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997.
Reviewer, Journal of Undergraduate Research, July 1995. Foreign Language Proficiency Committee, January-August 1995.
Steering Committee on New Ph.D. in European Languages & Literatures, Fall 1994-April 1995.
Faculty Adviser, SUNY at Stony Brook video, "Course Selection Made Simple." Working Group, Latin American and Carribean Studies Program, 1992-1993
Undergraduate Sub-Committe, Latin American and Carribean Studies Program, 1993-1993
Humanities and Fine Arts Research Council, 1992-93.
Personnel Policy Committee (PPC-Promotion and Tenure Committe), Non-tenured member, 1991-92.
Film Committee (charged with designing an undergraduate minor in film and media studies), 1991-1996.

Departmental:
Director of Undergraduate Studies, August 2002- present; January-August 1995.
Search Committee Chair for position in Contemporary Latin American/Andean literature. 2003-4.
Tenure Coordinator, 1998-99.
Graduation Ceremony Coordinator, Spring 1997.
Hiring Committee: interviewer for position in Hispanic Linguistics at 1991,1992, 1993 & 1994
MLA Convention; position in Luso Brazilian Studies, 1994 MLA Convention; position in Latin American Colonial Studies, 1996 Convention; and position in 19th Century Latin American, 1998 MLA Convention. Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Spring 1993.
Graduate Sub-Committee (charged with revising Comprehensive Exam and Graduate Curriculum), Spring 1993.
Member of Dissertation Committee for Sara Rojo (Dec. 1991); Dale Knickerbocker (Mar. 1992); Donna McGiboney, as Second Reader (Aug. 1993); Mercedes Gracia (May 1995); Rafael Reig (October 1995); Diana Valencia (August 1996); Angela Pérez (September 1996); Madeline Millán (March 1997); Verónica Azcue ( May 1998), Zenaida Madurka (Jan. 2000), Ying Han (Mar. 2001), RosarioTorres (Aug. 2002), Sobeira Latorre (May 2003); Juan Caamaño (.May 2004). Member of Comprehensive Exam Committee for Héctor Fernández (Oct. 1993); Angela Pérez (Mar. 1994); Susan Trapasso (Apr. 1994); Rafael Reig (May 1994); Francisco Kuhn-Bolanos (Nov. 1994); Liria Evangelista (Feb. 1995); Verónica Azcue (May 1995); Marisol de Mateo (Oct.1995); Zenaida Madurka (May 1996); Eduardo Segura (May 1996); Anne Mayer (D.A. Exam, June 1996); Blake Hewett (D.A. Exam, June 1996); Jorge Rosario (Oct. 1997); Eva Woods (May 1998); Amy Alexander (Sept. 1998); Eva Copeland (Sept. 1998); María Mercedes Andrade (Comparative Literature, Aug. 1999); Sergio Callau (Sept. 1999), Juan Camaño (May 2000), Fernando Balseca (May 2000); Catherine Lange (Aug. 2001); Eduardo Barros (Nov. 2001), Hilda Gómez (July 2002); María Bobadilla (October 2002), Jason Meyler (Sept. 2003); Celina Ibazeta (Feb. 2004); Nieves Alonso (May 2004).

Languages
Spanish (Near native ability); French (Good reading, writing and speaking ability); German (reading knowledge).